Stories to the last men of the month

They were pioneers in space exploration – the 24 astronauts traveling the month of Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s.

The loss of Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovellthat guides the Safe Safe Mission Back to Earth in 1970means there are only five people left escaping the relative safety of the ground orbit and trusted more deeply.

Today, more than 50 years, the race to restore people to the lunar side of the recovery once more.

The NASA hopes that the Artemis program leads to astronauts living in the month of this decade. Also aimed at China with people on top of the lunar face in 2030, with Go to an examination At the far side of the month on June 2024.

Many private companies tried to send scientific bapti to the moon, even if the NATION prefer the Achievements.

Nasa seeks to launch Artemis 2, the first miracle of Lunar Munar since Apollo 17 in 1972, last year but That date fell to 2026As the space agency says it takes more time to prepare.

Meanwhile, companies like Spacex and Boeing continue to develop their own technology, although not without their disabilities.

The issues of Boeing’s Starliner remaining two astronauts who have been stranded by international space station embarrassing the aerospace giant, while the “Quickly unable to be scheduled disasemblies” in Starship in Spacex becomes a habit of view of spaces guardians.

These delays emphasize the sad fact that the number of remaining astronauts is reduced.

With Frank Borman and Bill Anders, Jim Loverll made three of the first munar mission in Apollo 8, suggesting command / service support systems.

Their craft actually makes 10 orbits on the moon before returning home. Love later is the fifth person to walk in the lunar face as a commander of Apollo 13 – of course, never happens.

Instead, the story of his brush with death did not die in the film Apollo 13, where did he play with Tom Hanks.

After his retirement from NASA in 1973, Lovell worked in the telecom industry. Marilyn, his wife for more than 60 years, becoming a focus for the media during bad events, died on August 2023.

But what is the rest of the month of the month?

Who are they, and what are their stories?

On July 21, 1969, the former fighter pilot “Buzz” Aldrin left his lunar landing craft and became a second person step over the moon. The first 20 minutes, his commander, Neil Armstrong, was first.

Aldrin’s first words are: “Good looking”.

“Isn’t that?” Armstrong asked. “It’s nice to see here.”

“Beautiful desolation,” Aldrin replied.

The fact that he was second never sat happily with him. His crewmate Michael Collins said Aldrin “is not the first of the moon more than he values the second”.

But Aldrin still proud of his actions; Many years ago, when faced with a man claiming that Apollo 11 was a detailed lies, he was hit by 72-year-old Aldrin.

And after the death of Neil Armstrong in 2012, Aldrin said: “I know I was involved with many millions from the whole hero of America and the best pilot I found out.”

In spite of the struggles of later life, he never lost thirst for adventure and joined north and south puls, the last 86.

While being charged his offer, he remained an arbitrator for the space program, especially The need to explore Mars.

“I don’t think we just have to go there and come back – Apollo,” he said.

And his name is known for new generations as inspiration for Buzz Lightyear from the Toy story series in the story story. In January 2023, at the age of 93, he married the fourth time ..

There are only four people who are still living in the moon – Charlie Duke is one of them. He made it upset 36, making him a young man to put on the foot on the lunar.

In a late BBC interview, he talks about a “odd land”.

“Its beauty is … the sharp difference between the black space and the horizon of the moon … I can’t forget it. It’s very motivated.”

But he was playing another important role in exploring on the moon. After Apollo 11 Touched down in 1969, it was duke – in Mission Control as the capsule communicator, or Capcom – who was waiting nervously on the other end of the line when Neil Armstrong said: “Houston, Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed.”

In his southern drawl of the South, Duke replied: “Roger, laughing. Copy us on the ground, there is a bunch of men that are almost blue, we are again.”

“I really mean it, I’ve stopped the last minute or more,” He later told the BBC.

In 2022, Duke told the BBC that he was excited about the mission of Artemis in NASA – but warned it was not easy for the new generation of astronauts.

“They picked up near the South Pole for landing, because if I had an ice in the moon, it was short in that region. Because it was very difficult.”

Charlie Duke now lives outside San Antonio, Texas, with Dorothy, which he marries for 60 years.

Fred Hise about Apollo’s crew 13 that narrowly avoiding disaster In the 1970s after the on-board blast caused the mission to be destroyed if the craft was more than 200,000 miles (321,000km) from the ground.

The entire world looks nervous while the ones tried to return to the damaged spacecraft and the crew safely safely. Once back, Hase and his trips James Lovell and Jack Swrert become offers, in their apparent surprise.

“I felt like I couldn’t have got something while I was there,” he told the show show Show Host Carson when the crew showed the Tonelight Show.

Hise never made the moon. Although scheduled to be apollo 19, the mission was to be a mission due to budget cut, like all trips after Apollo 17.

He later served as a pilot to test prototype space shuttle, business.

Like most of his companion Apollo Alumni, after NASA left, Hase continued working in the aerospace industry until his retirement.

Unlike most astronauts in time, Schmitt did not serve a pilot of US forces.

A geologist and academic, at first he taught the astronauts with NASA on what their geological lunar fields were looking for in 1965.

The Schmitt was about the last mission mission of the month, Apollo 17, and with Commander Eugene Cerodan, one of the last two men put on the lunar face, in December 1972.

After the departure of NASA in 1975, the US Senate from his state of New Mexican was selected, but served in a term. Since then he has worked as a consultant of various industries as well as to proceed to academically.

He is also known for speaking against scientific recognition of climate change.

David Scott, Apollo’s commander 15, only one of four men who were still living in the moon – but he was also one of the first time.

In 1971, Scott and Crewmate tried James Irwin the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), “First wheel of the moon” as it was called. Traveling at speeds up to 8 mph (12 km / h) LRV allowed to travel several distances from the Lunar Lander more convenient to walk.

“On the first mission you don’t know if it’s going to work,” he remembered later. “The greatest loneliness is to get it, turn it on, and it actually works.”

After returning from the moon, Scott works on various roles in the inside of NASA, before joining the private sector.

He also acts as a consultant of many film and television projects, including Apollo 13 and HBO ministry from the world to the moon.

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